Mary Lincoln: Public Service Demands Resilence - Not Perfection

Matthew Brady, Mary Lincoln. Glass negative, c. 1860-1864. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Journalist and author of An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial, and Triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln, Lois Romano, provides this week's In Pursuit Lesson from the American Experiment by examining Mary's resilence in light of the unfathomable burdens she carried in a life marked by great loss and pain.

To access Romano's Lesson on Mary Lincoln, click here.